Re: gEDA-user: Success with gEDA tools...

[Dave N6NZ <n6nz@xxxxxxxx>]

Steven Michalske wrote:

>>  Worked almost right away.  Note red wire and missing pullup. Keeps me
>>  humble.
> 
> Green wires are less humbling, i suggest them.

I look at design efforts like golf.  Low scores are better, but nobody 
plays a round with 18 holes-in-one in a row.

My most humbling: back in the 1980's I wrote an ECO with about 15 lifted 
pins and 50 or so red wires, a chip glued onto the board "dead bug 
style", plus a piece of coax (!). (Didn't catch *that* case in 
simulation....)  This on a board with about 180 TTL packages.

Here is the amazing thing: The first version of the ECO was the rattiest 
write-up you ever saw, with white out and sticky-notes and scribbles in 
various colors of ink.  My tech and I gave one board to Lucy to put in 
our ECO on a fresh board since our prototype was pretty well hacked up 
by then. Our instructions were for her were to go home after doing the 
ECO, and we'd check out the board and if it worked leave a stack for her 
to do in the morning before we came in.

So far, so good.  Except that after checking out the board, I decided to 
rewrite the ECO so that Lucy could read it more easily.  Unfortunately, 
I forgot to put either the scribbled *or* the neat version of the 
instructions back on her workbench before going home.  I got in and 
found a stack of 6 boards with a note: "I couldn't find the instructions 
so I had to do these from memory -- hope they work."

They did.  Every one perfect.  Lucy was a jewel.  I am still astounded 
to this day at Lucy's memory for rework instructions.

-dave


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